Driving Force: One Million Dollar Laptop
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The $100 laptop is an education project for creating an inexpensive laptop computer intended to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
The computers will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy efficient that hand-cranking alone will generate sufficient power for operation. Ad-hoc wireless mesh networking may be used to allow many machines Internet access from one connection. The pricing goal is currently expected to start at around $135 not hitting the $100 mark until 2008. The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child.
The laptop is being developed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization. OLPC is a Delaware based, non-profit organization created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute the laptops. OLPC was announced by Media Lab chairman and co-founder Nicholas Negroponte at the January 2005 World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.
For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop
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Nicholas Negroponte Chairman Emeritus, MIT Media Laboratory Chairman, One Laptop per Child Group: MIT Media Laboratory Office: E15-210 Phone: (617) 253-5960 Fax: (617) 258-9212 E-mail: nicholas@media addresses are formatted username@media.mit.edu URL: http://www.media.mit.edu/~nicholas Assistant: Nia Lewis, niav@media addresses are formatted username@media.mit.edu
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